AREA WEATHER

A half-mile stretch of McCoy Creek Boulevard between Nixon Street and Fitzgerald Street remained flooded and shut down Tuesday morning after heavy rains caused the adjacent creek to once again overflow in the neighborhood adjacent to Jacksonville’s Hollybrook Park.

City barricades and barrels blocked access to the two-lane road south of West Beaver Street due to axle-deep water in some places, caused by heavy rains Monday and Tuesday morning. Some drivers have been seen fording the flood at the King Street intersection.

The road routinely floods during heavy rains, despite the city’s recent addition of some drainage ponds at the Fitzgerald Street area.